Welsh Journals

Q) No. 7. JULY, 1864. Peicb 2d. flag nf Small Cjjm#g* E are told in our Divine Book not to despise the day of small things; and our individual experience teaches us the same lesson. Many an evil gets to assume a gigantic form, which, for a length of time, is looked upon with apparent unconcern; and many a principle becomes predominant, which is looked down upon for years with scorn by many. Let the thin edge of a wedge get into the hardest block, it will be very likely to push itself farther inwards when sturdy blows are given it with a good aim and a strong arm. The truth holds good for our caution and encouragement. A bad habit must be nipped in the bud, or it will be very likely to become our master. A wrong movement in church or state must be suppressed on its first appearance, or it will certainly bring trouble to its opponents. The wily movements of Roman Catholicism in our country for the past twenty years, which, at first, were of a quiet and unobtrusive character, have now grown to a fearful magnitude, and seem to threaten an attempt, at no distant day, to bring our country again under the dominion of Rome. The Total Abstinence principle, which, in the memory of many who have scarcely passed the middle age of life, was laughed at and opposed in a most virulent manner, is now upheld by many of the best men of our country, and, we have no doubt, is destined to become a principle generally practised. Thus, whilst we are taught on the one hand to watch carefully the formation of habits and the rise of principles which are likely to be dangerous in their tendency, we are taught on the other to take courage when engaged in any movement which has a great and noble object in view, however feeble be the efforts which;